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Inter- pretation.

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12, 13 & 14 Geo, 6, c.43. 1.26.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-

"Director" means the Director of Marine and includes any person deputed or authorized by the Director to execute any power or perform any duty vested in ur imposed upon him here- under;

"international collision regulations" means the regulations made

under section 418 of the principal Act;

"junk" includes lorcha and any vessel of Chinese or other Asiatic build, construction or rig whether such vessel is of a sea going type or not and whether mechanically propelled or not;

"lorcha" includes any vessel--

(4) of European build and construction, but of Chinese or

orber Asiatic rig, or

(b) of Chinese or other Asiatic build and construction, but

of European rig

"master" includes every person (except a pilot) having command

or charge of any ship;

"Merchant Shipping Acts" means the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1804 to 1952, and any enactment of the United Kingdom Parliament amending the same or in replacement thereof and includes all regulations made thereunder;

“Minister" means the Minister of Transport of the United King- dom and includes the Board of Trade and any other body or person who carries out or has carried out functions similar to those carried out by the Minister of Transport under the Merchant Shipping Acts;

passenger" except for the purposes of Parts XIII and XIV,

means any person carried in a vessel except--

(a) a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board

the vessel on the business of the vessel;

(b) a person on board the vessel either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons, or by reason of any circum- stances that neither the master nor the owner could have prevented or forestalled, and

(c) a child under one year of age;

"Port Health Officer" includes the Director of Medical and Health Services and any officer for the time being performing the duties of Port Health Officer;

"port of the Colony', and "port" where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, mcan a place declared to be such under section 58;

"principal Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894;

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"'river steamer" means any steamship regularly plying between the Colony and any place on the Canton River or the West River or any river in the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, or between the Colony and Maçao;

"safety convention country” and “safety convention ship" bear the meanings attributed in section 36 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1949, to "country to which the safely convention applics" and "safety convention ship" respectively;

(57 4 68 Vict. 2.00)

(12, 13 & 14 Geo. 0, c.43)

"scaman" includes every person (except masters, pilots, and Pr. Act.

a. 742, apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship:

"ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars but excludes junks and lorches whether mechanically propelled or not : Provided that a mechanically propelled junk or lorcha shall not be deemed by this provision to be excluded from the definition of "ship" for the purposes of the international collision regulations;

"steamer" or "steamship" includes any vessel propelled by steam, and subject to any modification that may be prescribed by regulation shall include a vessel propelled by electricity or other mechanical power;

"tons" and "tonnage" mean tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage:

"vessel" includes any ship or boat or junk or any other descrip- Pr. Aet,

tion of vessel used in navigation.

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